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1. Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Two (2024)

PG-13 | 94 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The Anti-Monitor (the Monitor's evil counterpart) is released into the DC Multiverse and begins to destroy the different Earths that compose it. The Monitor attempts to recruit heroes from across the Multiverse to fight back.

Director: Jeff Wamester | Stars: Jensen Ackles, Darren Criss, Meg Donnelly, Stana Katic

Votes: 1,286

2. Sunshine (2007)

R | 107 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

A team of international astronauts is sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.

Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Cliff Curtis

Votes: 267,643 | Gross: $3.68M

3. Ghost (1990)

PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

Director: Jerry Zucker | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn

Votes: 236,130 | Gross: $217.63M

4. Gremlins (1984)

PG | 106 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.

Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, John Louie

Votes: 247,977 | Gross: $148.17M

5. The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities.

Director: Mark Pellington | Stars: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, David Eigenberg, Bob Tracey

Votes: 84,827 | Gross: $35.75M

6. Ghost Town (I) (2008)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.

Director: David Koepp | Stars: Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Téa Leoni, Jordan Carlos

Votes: 77,918 | Gross: $13.21M

7. Captivity (2007)

R | 96 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A man and a woman awaken to find themselves trapped in a cellar. As their kidnapper drives them mad, the truth about their horrific abduction is revealed.

Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Elisha Cuthbert, Daniel Gillies, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael Harney

Votes: 23,703 | Gross: $2.63M

8. The Day of the Triffids (2009)

93 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

With most of the world blinded and the dangerous carnivorous Triffids set loose, it falls upon a band of scattered survivors to fight this plant invasion and the madness following.

Stars: Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard, Brian Cox

Votes: 4,725

9. The Fare (I) (2018)

82 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

A taxi driver finds himself trapped in a time loop. He picks up a pretty woman in a rural area at night. Later she disappears. The loop starts over, when he switches the meter back to vacant.

Director: D.C. Hamilton | Stars: Gino Anthony Pesi, Brinna Kelly, Jason Stuart, Jon Jacobs

Votes: 3,449

10. Lu Over the Wall (2017)

PG | 112 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The story centers on Kai, a gloomy middle school student whose life changes after meeting Lu, a mermaid.

Director: Masaaki Yuasa | Stars: Kanon Tani, Shôta Shimoda, Minako Kotobuki, Sôma Saitô

Votes: 2,690 | Gross: $0.11M

11. Revue Starlight the Movie (2021)

120 min | Animation, Action, Drama

Starlight - This is a story of a far off star, a long time ago, and in the distant future. Two young girls, captivated by the glamour of the performance, exchange promises: "We'll become stars." "I'll wait for you on stage."

Director: Tomohiro Furukawa | Stars: Momoyo Koyama, Suzuko Mimori, Haruki Iwata, Aina Aiba

Votes: 197

12. The Device (I) (2014)

Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Two sisters discover a strange object of alien origin.

Director: Jeremy Berg | Stars: Angela DiMarco, David S. Hogan, Kate Alden, Gabriel Congdon

Votes: 1,310

13. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (2011 Video Game)

E10+ | Action, Adventure, Family

In this update to Nintendo's classic adventure game, a young man named Link must gather the three Spiritual Stones and awaken the Seven Sages in order to overthrow Ganondorf, a tyrannical warlock terrorizing the land of Hyrule.

Stars: Fujiko Takimoto, Nobuyuki Hiyama, Jun Mizusawa, Takashi Nagasako

Votes: 1,358

14. The Forbidden Zone (2021)

11 min | Short, Animation

A killer fog has descended over the land. High in the alps, a man nurtures a potted plant as the fog laps around him until, one day, a mysterious orb appears.

Director: Zach Tolchinsky

Votes: 27

15. Industrial Soundscape (2008)

11 min | Short

Music is produced by different objects in an industrial and desolate landscape.

Director: David Lynch

Votes: 427

16. To Reach the Sky (1975)

9 min | Animation, Short

In the evening, the boy Zhenya sat by the window and looked at the starry sky. Suddenly one star fell. The boy climbed out through the window into the courtyard and went to search for it ... See full summary »

Director: Garri Bardin | Stars: Anna Rybnikova, Kirill Haritonov, Petya Degtiariov, Evgeniy Leonov

Votes: 47

17. Lake Erie

100 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Announced

After his wife witnesses a UFO, and subsequently vanishes days later, a slightly paranoid journalist begins his own investigation into her strange disappearance.

18. Stevie's Aliens (2018)

16 min | Short, Sci-Fi

A skeptical high school student sees what he believes is a UFO, and goes on a journey with an odd new friend to summon it again.

Director: Austin S. Harris | Stars: Devin Mojica, Aleah Quiñones, Ian Bouillion

Votes: 34

19. John Carpenter: Utopian Facade (2016 Music Video)

4 min | Short, Action, Horror

A female android on a mission is chased in the woods by assorted creatures in this surreal sci-fi music video by John Carpenter.

Directors: Gavin Hignight, Benjamin Verhulst | Stars: John Carpenter, Hrisanta, Stuart Morales

Votes: 32

20. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Pilot (1993)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Agent Dana Scully is instructed to debunk an FBI project dubbed "The X-Files," paranormal cases that have been reopened by Agent Fox Mulder.

Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Charles Cioffi, Cliff De Young

Votes: 12,743

21. Andromeda (2000–2005)
Episode: Waking the Tyrant's Device (2003)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Dylan's sent on a mission, but isn't informed of the danger he faces. Andromeda's captured by a gravity field which is the target of their mission. Dylan discovers the moon's the base of ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Potter | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Lisa Ryder, Gordon Michael Woolvett, Laura Bertram

Votes: 157

22. Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode: The Merchant (1971)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Jim pulls a "James Bond" letting himself be captured so he can become beholden to arms dealer Armand Anderssarian who can get Jim released. A classic start to an IMF con. Meanwhile Paris, ... See full summary »

Director: Leon Benson | Stars: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris

Votes: 157

23. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: Vanishing Act (1996)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Trevor McPhee wants to celebrate New Year's in style. On his way back from the store with the champagne, he has an accident. When he wakes, he hitches a ride home and finds his wife thinks that he abandoned her - ten years ago.

Director: Jonathan Glassner | Stars: Jon Cryer, Dean McDermott, Richard Ian Cox, Jessica Lundy

Votes: 489

24. Space: 1999 (1975–1977)
Episode: The Metamorph (1976)

TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

An Eagle is sent onto the surface of the planet Psychon, which has titanium needed for repairs to the Alpha Base. It fails to return and is used by Psychon scientist Mentor as bait with ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt

Votes: 320

25. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: What Are Little Girls Made Of? (1966)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Nurse Chapel is reunited with her fiancé; but his new obsession leads him to make an android duplicate of Captain Kirk.

Director: James Goldstone | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Michael Strong, Sherry Jackson

Votes: 4,646

26. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Chain of Command, Part II (1992)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

While the humorless Captain Jellico leads the effort to prevent a Cardassian invasion, Picard is captured and tortured by a ruthless interrogator in an attempt to break him.

Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 4,012

27. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Deja Q (1990)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Much to Picard's displeasure, Q reappears on the Enterprise, claiming to have been ejected from the Q Continuum, and therefore, lost his powers.

Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 4,295

28. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Heart of Glory (1988)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Enterprise searches for answers as to why three Klingon warriors were the only survivors aboard a freighter just inside the Neutral Zone which was seemingly attacked by a Ferengi ship.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby

Votes: 3,586

29. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Home Soil (1988)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

On Velara III, Geordi and Data discover a microscopic life form responsible for the death of an engineer stationed on the base.

Director: Corey Allen | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby

Votes: 3,516

30. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode: Repression (2000)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Security officer Tuvok investigates a strange series of attacks on Voyager directed at the former Maquis members.

Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill

Votes: 1,681

31. Tremors (2003)
Episode: A Little Paranoia Among Friends (2003)

TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Burt and Tyler travel to Toluca, New Mexico to investigate a possible Graboid problem. However, the townsfolk believe extra-terrestrials are to blame.

Director: Michael Grossman | Stars: Victor Browne, Gladise Jiminez, Marcia Strassman, Lela Lee

Votes: 91

32. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Conduit (1993)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an "encounter" he experienced as a child.

Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Carrie Snodgress, Michael Cavanaugh

Votes: 6,916

33. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Deep Throat (1993)

TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder and Scully investigate the mysterious case of a military test pilot who disappeared after experiencing strange psychotic behaviour.

Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jerry Hardin, Michael Bryan French

Votes: 7,970

34. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Dreamland (1998)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An anonymous tip finally brings Mulder and Scully to the mecca of all UFO lore, Area 51. But when the agents witness the flight of a mysterious craft there, Mulder and one of the Men in Black, Fletcher, somehow switch bodies - and lives.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Michael McKean, John Mahon

Votes: 4,593

35. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Field Trip (1999)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The skeletal remains of a young couple are found after they have been missing for only three days in an area known for UFO activity. Mulder and Scully have different experiences in the investigation but nothing is quite as it seems.

Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Robyn Lively

Votes: 3,958

36. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Little Green Men (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

With the X-Files shut down, Mulder travels to Puerto Rico on a tip from his mentor in the Senate to uncover the reason behind the sudden reactivation of a remote long abandoned SETI-like communications station.

Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Mike Gomez

Votes: 5,443

37. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Patient X (1998)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder and Scully search for answers when separate groups of alien abductees are burned alive. They meet a woman with an implant in her neck and symptoms similar to Scully.

Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Nicholas Lea, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 3,573

38. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Requiem (2000)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Seven years after their first case, Mulder and Scully return to Bellefleur, Oregon to see Billy Miles and investigate a new series of abductions in the local forest, risking their partnership and lives.

Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Nicholas Lea

Votes: 3,274

39. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Tempus Fugit (1997)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While investigating the unexplained crash of a commercial airliner the agents' search for answers leads to the bottom of a desolate lake and a startling discovery involving Mulder's alien abductee friend Max Fenig.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Joe Spano, Tom O'Brien

Votes: 3,947

40. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: The Blessing Way (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A furious pursuit of Agent Mulder is underway, and more importantly, the government wants the data tape he carried. Agent Scully, against all odds, searches to uncover his whereabouts, persisting that he is alive when all others deny it.

Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Peter Donat

Votes: 4,921

41. Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000)
Episode: The Demon Reborn (1999)

Unrated | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A desperate Ra's Al Ghul comes to Metropolis with designs on Superman and only Batman can help.

Director: Dan Riba | Stars: Tim Daly, Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, David Warner

Votes: 438

42. The Transformers (1984–1987)
Episode: A Prime Problem (1985)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Megatron creates an Optimus Prime clone to lure the Autobots into a crevasse of Korlonium Crystals set to explode on contact.

Directors: Andy Kim, Bob Kirk, Al Kouzel, Bob Matz, Norm McCabe, Margaret Nichols, Karen Peterson, Tom Ray, Robert Shellhorn, Bob Treat, Terry Lennon | Stars: Michael Bell, Corey Burton, Michael Chain, Christopher Collins

Votes: 147

43. The Transformers (1984–1987)
Episode: Enter the Nightbird (1985)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Dr. Fujiyama has created a ninja robot called Nightbird. When the Decepticons steal her, the Autobots must try to rescue Nightbird without harming her.

Directors: Andy Kim, Bob Kirk, Al Kouzel, Bob Matz, Norm McCabe, Margaret Nichols, Karen Peterson, Tom Ray, Robert Shellhorn, Bob Treat, Terry Lennon | Stars: Michael Bell, Corey Burton, Christopher Collins, Scatman Crothers

Votes: 147

44. The Transformers (1984–1987)
Episode: Triple Takeover (1985)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Astrotrain and Blitzwing manipulate Starscream into helping them sideline Megatron so they can lead the Decepticons.

Directors: Andy Kim, Bob Kirk, Al Kouzel, Bob Matz, Norm McCabe, Margaret Nichols, Karen Peterson, Tom Ray, Robert Shellhorn, Bob Treat, Terry Lennon | Stars: Jack Angel, Michael Bell, Gregg Berger, Arthur Burghardt

Votes: 117

45. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: Ghost Light: Part Three (1989)

TV-Y | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The Doctor attempts to convince Light to put an end to Smith's schemes but instead Light aims to put an end to Earth's evolution.

Director: Alan Wareing | Stars: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Ian Hogg, Sylvia Syms

Votes: 523

46. Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode: The Terratin Incident (1973)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Exposed to spiroid epsilon waves, the Enterprise crew begins to shrink in size. If a way can not be found to stop their condition, they will soon be too small to control the ship.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei

Votes: 739

47. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Insensitive (2007)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

On Valentine's Day, House meddles in relationships as he works to diagnose a teenager who has a genetic inability to feel pain.

Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,166

48. Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode: Houses of the Holy (2007)

TV-14 | 50 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An angel causes people to cheerfully go out to murder, and when the Winchesters investigate one of them falls under its sway.

Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Denis Arndt, David Monahan

Votes: 5,802

49. Lost (2004–2010)
Episode: There's No Place Like Home: Part 2 (2008)

TV-14 | 40 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Ben tries to escape Keamy's custody so that he and Locke can follow through with Jacob's request to move the island. Michael tries to neutralize the explosives on the boat, while the "Oceanic 6" move closer to rescue.

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Naveen Andrews, Henry Ian Cusick, Jeremy Davies, Emilie de Ravin

Votes: 7,005

50. Unsolved Mysteries (2020– )
Episode: Berkshires UFO (2020)

TV-MA | 39 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

Residents of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, recall their baffling, terrifying experiences with a UFO on the night of September 1, 1969.

Director: Marcus A. Clarke | Stars: Thom Reed, Nancy Reed, Jane Green, Tom Warner

Votes: 1,325